{"id":670412,"date":"2017-11-17T20:13:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T02:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=670412"},"modified":"2017-11-19T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T20:54:14","slug":"farm-road-849-bridge-will-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=670412","title":{"rendered":"Farm Road 849 Bridge will be Replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/TxDot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/11\/TxDot-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-668874\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c TxDOT has announced an emergency contract is being put in place to expedite the Farm Road 849 bridge replacement project. This comes after the westbound overpass, located at Interstate Highway 20 in Hideaway, sustained major structural damage when it was hit Tuesday morning by an oversized load carrying a tank vessel. Engineers have evaluated the structure and found it to be unsafe for traffic until the replacement is complete. The damage includes three of the four girders being struck including the top flange of the girders being pulled away from the concrete deck. Because construction plans to replace the structure have been previously completed, expediting the project is feasible and the best option since repairs would be costly and inefficient. The timeline for moving the project forward includes finalizing the construction plans and seeking bids by early December and work getting underway shortly after that.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At a cost of $5.3 million, the replacement project would remove the existing steel and concrete structure over I-20 and replace it with a 4-span reinforced concrete bridge and include roadway work to connect to the new overpass approach slabs. The project is expected to take around six months to complete. Traffic will remain detoured until the project is complete.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from TxDOT, this is how the detour will work:<br \/>\nWestbound I-20<br \/>\n*Hideaway (northbound FM 849) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Take FM 849 Exit<br \/>\n*Tyler (southbound FM 849) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Take SH 110 Exit, take left to cross IH 20 using SH 110 bridge, take left on IH 20 south service road<\/p>\n<p>Eastbound IH 20<br \/>\n*Hideaway (northbound FM 849) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Take Toll 49 Exit, take left to cross IH 20 using Toll 49 bridge, take left on IH 20 north service road \/ IH 20 westbound entrance ramp, take FM 849 Exit<br \/>\n*Tyler (southbound FM 849) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Take FM 849 Exit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c TxDOT has announced an emergency contract is being put in place to expedite the Farm Road 849 bridge replacement project. This comes after the westbound overpass, located at Interstate Highway 20 in Hideaway, sustained major structural damage when it was hit Tuesday morning by an oversized load carrying a tank vessel. Engineers have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=670412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farm Road 849 Bridge will be Replaced<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":668874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 06:30:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670441,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670412\/revisions\/670441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}